Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent until proven guilty, of course.
May 12 | Shoplifting
A loss prevention officer at an area superstore watched as a man walked to the garden section, lift a small $357 swimming pool and “throw” it into a shopping cart. Once in the cart, this man allegedly walked past the cashiers, whereupon he was confronted by an employee. The man pushed by the employee, and jumped into a waiting Nissan 350Z and tore off. Police soon stopped a car matching that descriptions and arrested the driver after “drug equipment” was found in the car.
May 13 | General information
A man living in an Ashley River Road apartment complex told police that a woman “drugged him through a needle in his arm, and stole a flip phone, $180 cash,” and other items. The man claimed the woman drugged him two nights before and that he has no memory of the previous 24 hours. The man’s adult daughter said he had been inviting younger women over to his apartment, and that she was worried where her father was meeting these women.  She also said he has a long history of drinking too much.
May 14 | Intimidation
A Marginal Road man said two men came to his apartment and began beating on the front door, and circling his building, beating on his windows. When the resident opened the door to confront the men, he said they tried to push their way inside, and began yelling at and threatening his female guest. After the man called police, the other two men fled in a car, but soon texted the woman to “have fun with birdman.”
May 14 | All other larceny
An employee at an Old Parsonage Road church reported that someone had undone the bolts holding the church’s roadside signs, stolen the signs, and then replaced the bolts.
May 14 | All other larceny
A Muirfield Parkway man heard a noise outside his home in the early morning hours, and found a man attempting to steal a trailer off his neighbor’s truck. The man yelled out, “Hey, you’re not Rick.” At which point the alleged thief dropped the trailer and took off in an SUV. Soon after, police found a man driving a similar car, but was unable to establish he was the culprit and let him go.
May 14 | Simple assault
Witnesses saw a man using an aluminum baseball bat to beat on the door of another man’s Savannah Highway motel room. Earlier, the bat-wielding man punch the other man in the face. The victim said the incident began when the other man had confronted him outside his room, demanding “Who are you mean mugging,” and threatened to “beat your little ass.”
May 14 | Death investigation
An employee at an Ashley River Road apartment complex doing a walk-through noticed a man “suspended” form the rear upper patio.
May 14 | Assisting other agencies
An officer on patrol on Old Possum Road saw two men, one covered in blood and holding his face, engaged in what appeared to be a verbal argument outside a nearby watering hole. “Look at what you did,” the bleeding man yelled at the other, and the two began to lurch at each other. This officer separated the two apparently inebriated men without further incident. The non-bleeding man explained, “Man, he came down the steps. And I told him if he came down those steps I’d give it to him, and, well, I gave it to him.”